Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Administrator's Guide


Daily Monitoring Scenario

This section contains an example of the daily monitoring of a Tivoli Storage Manager system. Depending on the configuration of your system, you may want to perform additional monitoring tasks. If a function does not complete properly, you can review the activity log for errors that occurred at about the time of failure (see Requesting Information from the Activity Log for details).

You can include the commands shown in a command script that you can run daily. Review the output of the script for any errors or problems.

  1. Verify that drives are online. If there is a drive in the unavailable state, there may be errors with schedules.
    query drive
    
  2. Verify that database and recovery log volumes are online and synchronized.
    query dbvol
    query logvol
    
  3. Check the status of disk volumes. If any are offline, check for hardware problems.
    query volume devclass=disk
    
  4. Check that scratch volumes are available.
    query libvol
    
  5. Check the access state of the tape volumes. For example, a volume that is not in the readwrite state might indicate a problem. You may need to move data and check the volumes out of the library.
    query volume
    
  6. Check database and recovery log statistics.
    query database
    query log
    
  7. Verify that scheduled database backups completed successfully.
    query volhist type=dbbackup
    
  8. Check the activity log for error messages.
    query actlog search=ANR????E
    


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